Class XI student Dip Ghosh of Nabagram Vidyapith has plenty of prospects of becoming the next Phullela Gopichand. Dip started taking coaching in badminton at a suburban training centre called […]
Cult leader
Goutam Chattopadhyay was a gutsy, colourful and enigmatic personality with manifold qualities and an exceptionally brilliant mind, says Arnab Nandy about the legendary musician “Dhoro haal shokto haate, Bhoy ki […]
Jatra revived
The day witnessed the 40th Jatra festival organised by Uttarayan, a small organisation in Nabagram near the suburban town Konnagar held recently. Every year, the members of Uttarayan stage a […]
Magic of the mountains
The tour seemed all too short for we were supposed leave on 4 and return on 9 April. But due to unavoidable circumstances we had to return one day earlier. […]
Movie montage – Lucky
Cast: Salman Khan, Sneha Ullal, Mithun Chakraborty Music: Adnan Sami Direction: Radhika Rao and Vijay Sapru Not too impressive Sneha Ullal is sweet – you’re bound to feel this after […]
No more calculators!
“You’ll find many books which say that mathematics is fun, but remember, it can also be ‘gun’!” This is what my mathematics teacher says sometimes. But for the time being, […]
Movie montage – Tango Charlie
Cast: Bobby Deol, Ajay Devgan, Tanisha Chandra, Nandana Sen Music: Anu Malik, Anand Raj Anand Direction: Mani Ratnam War is not the answer After years, Bobby Deol can look forward […]
Immortal classic
Keeping in mind the fact that animation in this part of the world is still in its nascent stage, the Animworld team hasn’t done too badly in making an animation […]
Rock-a-doodle-do!
They came, they performed and they conquered all hearts. That’s the one way of describing Chandrabindoo’s performance at Vibes 2004. The moment Upal and Anindya, the two lead singers came […]
Blank notices
I had been bearing him for full two minutes. But then I could stand it no longer. “Why do you have to smoke even inside a bus?” I blurted out […]